Google Translate C#

Question

I am working on a Natural Language Processing program in which I am trying to implement Google Translate. While looking for ways to implement Google translate in Assembly I came across the following code segment:

public static string Translate(string input, string languagePair, Encoding encoding)
{
    string url = String.Format("http://www.google.com/translate_t?hl=en&ie=UTF8&text=       {0}&langpair={1}", input, languagePair);
    string result = String.Empty;

    using (WebClient webClient = new WebClient())
    {
        webClient.Encoding = encoding;
        result = webClient.DownloadString(url);
    }

    HtmlDocument doc = new HtmlDocument();
    doc.LoadHtml(result);
    return doc.DocumentNode.SelectSingleNode("//textarea[@name='utrans']").InnerText;
}

I am relatively new to C#, I have mainly used Java, and I unclear on the implicit parameters for

public static string Translate(string input, string languagePair, Encoding encoding)

When I look in the C# API for Encoder, there were examples as to how to use the Encoding class: (link: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/h5y3703w(v=vs.71).aspx)

Byte[] thirdcharNoFlush = new Byte[encoder.GetByteCount(chars, 2, 1, bFlushState)];
    encoder.GetBytes(chars, 2, 1, thirdcharNoFlush, 0, bFlushState);

What should I input in my parameters in order to translate a phrase, such as "How are you?", into Spanish using Google Translate. Any help on this matter would be greatly appreciated!

Answer 1

This should work:

var result = Translate("How are you?", "es|en", Encoding.UTF8);